Clarion 1965-09-29 Vol 41 No 01

Returning travelers David Beek, Roger Waldenstrom, William J. Swenson and Bernard Johnson join
hands after returning from successful projects abroad. Beek studied for nine months in the University of
Wisconsin's Junior Year in India program. CLARION Editor Swenson spent a two month summer visiting
Thailand with the University of Minnesota-sponsored Student Project for Amity among Nations. Waldenstrom
and Johnson traveled to Guatemala and Alaska, respectively, as part of the Bethel College Student Mission-ary
Project.
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, September 29, 1965
Royal Players Invade the Southland
With Modern Christian Drama Message
Campus Pilgrimage Led
By Student Missionaries
Eight students are returning to Bethel this year with a summer of
missionary service directly behind them.
The students, sent and supported by chapel offerings, were Bernard
Johnson to Sanborne, Alaska; Sharon Larson and Phyllis Nelson to
Ixmiquilpan, Mexico; Dick Putnam to the Bronx, New York; Mildred
Stockwell to Tarejero, Mexico; Roger Waldenstrom to Barillas, Guate-mala;
and Mr. and Mrs. Ben West to Grand Portage, Minnesota.
The experiences and impressions of the students varied. Bernard
Johnson, aside from chapel duties, also filled in at a dispensary before
a nurse arrived.
"I came closer than I ever wanted to in delivering a baby," claims
Bernard.
Prexy Outlines
Hopes For Year
by Bill Madsen
Bill Madsen is the elected
president of the Bethel College
Student Association.
Bernard found the Aleut people "reluctant to make public any
decision for Christ. They would give Christ a trial run and then would
drop in at the chapel and ask for further guidance."
Mildred Stockwell served as a teacher to missionary children. Since
there are no missionary schools in Mexico, she was impressed by the
need for teachers for these children. Her clinical work provided a
main contact with the Mexican people.
"It was especially a privilege to be there this year," Mildred com-mented.
"Building a church out of people who steal, cheat, and lie
takes many years. But the church is maturing and the people are now
beginning to go out."
Sharon Larson and Phyllis Nelson spent the summer weekdays at
a translation center helping to write a book of translator's helps. On the
weekends they traveled to the little
village of Titzu where they met
and talked with the people.
The Christian Indians impressed
Sharon the most.
"They are very much persecu-ted
for their faith. Yet, they
appreciate the chance to be per-secuted.
Other people know now
that they are Christians."
Roger Waldenstrom operated a
radio station in a little Guatemalan
village. The station broadcasted
each evening in three languages.
Roger explained that the people
there have a totally different con-cept
of salvation. They are not
saved from their sins, but from
rituals. When they accept Christ
as Savior, they are pulled away
from their old customs of ap-proaching
the witch doctor on
such matters as marriage and prop-erty.
The inscription on a graduation
card read, "Greetings and a mes-sage
from the working world—ge
back to school, it's a rat race out
here."
With similar feelings many of us
begin the 1965-66 school year at
Bethel. Beyond that, most of us
tome with new aspir90 ,Ins, enthu-siasm,
and optimism. With these
feelings come the dangers of dis-appointment
and disillusionment,
for without them growth and pro-gress
are impeded.
Parting advisory words of last
year's Senate president were, "Be
thinking about and decide early
what you want to do next year
—overall—the attitude and atmo-sphere
you'd like to see on cam-pus."
For one long concerned with the
problems of communication and
self expression the choice was easy
continued on page three
"New Talents"
Bow Saturday
The Bethel College Drama Depart-ment
will sponsor "New Talents",
an evening of dramatic presenta-tions
on Saturday, October 2, at
8 p.m. in the College Auditorium.
Scenes from three different plays
will attempt to give the audience
a sample of the variety of expres-sion
possible through the medium
of drama.
Scenes from the Shakespearean
classic, Julius Caesar, will be pre-sented
in modern dress. A religi-ous
drama, entitled Servant in the
House, deals with the struggle of
a preacher against his wife's high
ambitions for him.
Those who enjoyed last year's
"mellow-dramie", The Curse of an
Aching Heart, will enjoy Pure as
the Driven Snow, another hero-heroine-
villian production.
Guest directors are respectively,
Elliot Donnells, David Whitney, and
Joe Marcea. Promising new talent
is featured in this first of a series
of Drama Department presenta-tions.
Tickets will be sold at the
door for 50c. per person or 75c
per couple.
Most of us began to think about
wandering back to Bethel in mid-
August.
Not Dale Rott's Royal Players.
In fact that's the time they em-barked
on a long trek of one
night stands through the heart-land
of the Old South.
Destination? Miami.
"Our first summer tour was un-usual
in several ways," explains
one tired director. "First, we cov-ered
more mileage than on any
previous tour—almost 5000. Sec-ondly,
we went to Florida in the
summer."
"Thirdly, we kept a tight sched-ule.
The kids had only one day
off. Fourthly, at one Florida
church we received the highest
offering ever."
"Fifthly, we presented "Adam
and Eve Meet the Atom" at the
Religious Drama Project of the
American Educational Theater As-sociation."
This professional soci-ety
gleans its membership from
high school, college, and profes-sional
institutions in the United
States and Canada.
Adam and Eve . .. was present-ed
in a typical church performance
situation. A lively discussion fol-lowed
concerning the script, pro-duction,
and touring to churches
in general. Mr. Rott was appointed
Chairman of the Association's Re-ligious
Drama Project.
CONQUEST IN BURMA, the old
stand-by of the Royal Players,
was presented to various church-es
all over Florida and was well
received as usual. Touring troupe
members included T. Harrison,
"Tuffy' Bryant, Bonnie Toays,
Daryl Berg, Vince Bloom, Phoe-be
Netterlund, and the director,
Gale Rott.
Despite their exhausting sched-ule,
most of the troupe considered
Dr. George Beasley-Murray is
Principal of Spurgeon's College,
London. He was the principle
speaker at the opening academic
convocation of the collegiate
year.
In the forecourt of an art mu-seum
in Moscow there is a statue
of a labouring man hammering a
sword into the shape of a plough-share.
Beneath it are the words,
"We must turn our swords into
ploughshares".
This is a fine aspiration for a
people to have and we should en-courage
it. The sculptor who carv-ed
that statue, however, • could
hardly have been ignorant of the
fact that he was putting into stone
a vision from the Bible—the prom-ise
of a day when God shall bring
into being a new order of peace
and righteousness, when men shall
"beat their swords into plough-shares
and their spears into prun-ing
hooks; nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more".
The Bible declares that that day
will be the gift of God to man.
The Communist also looks for it,
but he does not look to God for
it. The worker is his own mes-siah,
and by the strength of his
arms he will achieve his own
deliverance. For him the king-dom
of God has become the
kingdom of the working man.
The Christian Church has been
long enough on its course to know
that this kind of reinterpretation
—neither the first nor the last in
history—is doomed to be shattered
by the ruthless facts of life. Only
God can bring to reality the age-long
dream of man. Yet the Church
has the good news about it for the
world. The news is not alone that
God will do it, but that He has
done it and is doing it and will
complete it by His Christ.
The kingdom of God is God's
royal power in action to save man.
That power was the secret of the
life and work of Jesus. It is the
secret of the Church's existence
today. For the Church is the people
called to know the power of God's
saving sovereignty. And it is called
not only to experience it, but to
embody it and to be its instrument
in the world. This is its mission.
In carrying out this task the
Christian College and University
have an important role. The great
universities of Oxford and Cam-bridge
were once regarded in
England as the seminaries of the
Church; they provided the
Church and the nation with men
to serve both in the fear of God.
By no stretch of the imagination
can they be so viewed today,
though there are many fine
Christians in our British univer-sities.
This very aim, however, is surely
the inspiration of the dual insti-tution
in whose interests we are
met today. The Bethel Seminary
exists to enable men to take the
Good News of the Kingdom to your
nation and to all the world. The
College has a related task, for
every Christian man and woman
has a vocation from God and the
service of God's kingdom embraces
the totality of culture.
Both College and Seminary have
the task of opening the eyes of
young men and women to the
breadth and majesty and power of
God's sovereignty among men, to
help them grasp the immense po-tentiality
of their lives when they
are opened to the powers of that
kingdom, and to equip them to
serve their fellows by bringing it
to them.
"Seek first the kingdom of God"
is Christ's word to men. Through
Him the kingdom has come and
shall come. His word is promise
and vocation in one. The promise
supplies the zest and the power to
fulfil the vocation.
FESTIVAL CHOIR
Auditions for the Festival
Choir will continue until 4:30
p.m. Thursday, September 30.
Interested students should con-tact
directors Berglund, Mogck,
Smith, or Whitinger of the
Music Department for appoint-ments.
the tour a rewarding experience
from the standpoint of bringing a
challenging message to a wide
variety of audiences of varying
Christian experience.
Visiting British Lecturer Examines
Christian's Potentialities of Power
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, September 29, 1965
New Federal Programs
Boost Construction Aid
Many of us heard the news of the Conference's decision
on the federal aid issue, well, somewhat less than enthusias-tically.
Cheer up. Very soon the signature "Lyndon Baines
Johnson" will be inked on one of the potentially most im-portant
papers in Bethel's history.
Provisions? Gather 'round all ye new campus idealists: the
House version doubles the amount of federal money available
for the construction of undergraduate facilities in fiscal 1966
—from $230 million to $460 million. And ye social science and
humanities majors: the rules restricting use of federal funds
to the natural sciences, languages and libraries are being
lifted.
And ye debtors too: the NDEA kitty available for grants is
being increased to $64.4 million in fiscal 1966 and a projected
$70 million in fiscal 1968, including new provisions for needy
underclassmen. All adopted by a whopping House vote of
367-22.
The Senate plans no less than a $672 construction alloca-tion,
in fiscal 1966, plus graduated amounts increasing upward
over the next five years to $1.1 billion in fiscal 1970.
And fellow Baptists, thanks to the efforts of Everett
McKinley Dirksen and Rep. Waggoner of Louisiana, BOTH
bills contain a provision specifically barring government in-terference
in "curriculum, instruction, administration, per-sonnel
or selection of library resources" or in the affairs of
any "private club or religious organization" of recipient col-leges.
Now none of us will ever reap individual benefits accord-ing
to these percentages. In fact, much of this money just
may go into building a bigger place for your kid brother to
take Freshman English.
But that's exactly the reason why the Federal government
is deeply extending its commitment in higher education: the
colleges face inflationary and population growth pressures
that are outside of their control
As the tendency to think of higher education and its
direction in terms of public, rather than private terms mush-rooms,
however, so will the identity of private colleges become
harder to define. Does a Christian understanding of the worth
and potential of man lead Bethel closer to, or further away
from, institutions that serve this purpose?
Realistically, the question for Bethel may come to be
answered more than we'd like to admit by what our evan-gelical
sister colleges do. Is it not time to rally to the point
of inter-college discussion?
We all want to conserve the good things in the Bethel heri-tage
we've grown to love. But some of these privileges may
now have slipped into the past: this fall may prove whether
denominational financing is one of them.
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Conference Postpones Final Decision
On Acceptance of Federal Financing
by Jeff Loomis
Kashmir
Cease-fire was declared Wednes-day
in the India-Pakistan clash
over possesion of Kashmir.
Moslem agitators are planning to
continue guerrilla warfare and In-dian
officials still refuse to allow
Kashmir citizens a plebiscite for
determining their political status.
Vatican City
Ecumenical Council participants
this week approved a resolution
committing Roman Catholics to
a doctrine of religious liberty.
The action was hailed by observ-ers
as a move toward further
interfaith unity.
Peking
Chinese officials said Tuesday
that India had responded to their
ultimatum by destroying posts in
the Tibetan hills. India answered
by saying that such posts had nev-er
existed, and thus were not de-troyed.
They then accused the Reds
of building a wall of Berlin variety
along Jhelepla pass above t h e
Chumbi Valley.
Saigon
In end-of-week action, B-52
bombers attacked a Viet Cong con-centration
20 miles north of Saigon
and South Vietnamese troops re-captured
an outpost further north-ward
that had been overrun by the
Viet Cong the day before. Over
600 were killed in the skirmishes.
United Nations
U.S. delegate Arthur Goldberg
Wednesday said before the U.N.
General Assembly that the U. S.
was in South Viet Nam to pre-vent
the Asian nation from be-coming
the first victim of Red
China's attempt at world domina-tion.
Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko
repsonded Thursday by saying U.S.
troops should leave Viet Nam as
a step toward peace.
The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert
L. Short. John Knox Press, 1964, pp. 127
(Paperback, $1.50)
The Gospel According to Peanuts
is an overdue book. The wealth of
spiritual treasure in the comics
had been overlooked, but Robert
Short now reveals that Peanuts is
true spiritual "coin of the realm."
In this small systematic theology
of Peanuts he uses appropriate
cartoons to outline the central
themes to which Charles Schulz
returns continually: the sin and
guilt of man, God's free gift, re-pentance,
the work of Christ, and
the offense of the Cross.
We are introduced to Schulz's
theological plain-talk by such
chapter titles as "The Wages of
Sin is 'Aaaugh!"1, "Good Grief",
and "The Hound of Heaven".
Short suggests that the cartoon
by Virgil A. Olson
Dr. Virgil A. Olson is Profes-sor
of Ecumenics and Church
History in Bethel Theological
Seminary.
The decision was to delay for
two years.
The Baptist General Conference
in its 86th annual session last
June at Akron, Ohio debated the
recommendation that Bethel Col-lege
be allowed to apply for Fed-eral
funds for new buildings on
the Arden Hills Campus under the
Higher Education Facilities Act.
After the extended session of
one of the most encouraging and
enlightening discussions held on
the Conference floor for several
years, it was decided to table
final decision on the HEFA un-til
the 1967 annual meeting.
The representatives from Bethel
encouraged delay on this recom-mendation.
Bethel College will not
be able to use the funds for a few
years, so there is no need for im-mediate
action. Further, the HEFA
constitutionality will undoubtedly
be tested and tried in the courts
before delegates will be required
to vote on this question.
Most important, however, from
a pragmatic point of view, is the
response of t h e Conference
Senate Cynic:
by Bernard Johnson
This year's student senate acti-vities
got off to a roaring start.
President Bill Madsen is to be
commended for his efficiency and
preparation for the start of sen-ate
debate.
The start of senate debate has
been filled with such unusually
thorny problems as (1) what sena-tors
should wear to senate meet-ings,
(2) the monumental traffic
problem in the vicinity of 1480 N.
Snelling Avenue, (3) the mysterious
lack of information concerning the
much talked about campus radio
station, and (4) what to do with
the 26 members of the Swedish
Gospel Choir.
Outside of the budget alloca-tions,
the topic of student dress
dominated discussion.
A student dress code, sometimes
published, sometimes spoken, has
always met with the same reaction:
blatant disrespect.
I'm not against neat dressing
episodes are analogies of adult
life.
The kids of Peanuts like Gold-ing's
boys in Lord of the Flies
show the deep roots of adult evil.
But the pessimism of Golding con-trasts
sharply with the undeniable
optimism of Peanuts. Schulz is an
evangelical who believes the Gospel
is goad news.
But Peanuts is in an unknown
tongue so the author tries to in-troduce
us to it. Once we speak
the same tongue he contents him-self
with bringing about the frame
of mind in which we can hear Pea-nuts
in all its child-like simplicity
and forcefulness.
Robert Short is a graduate stu-dent
who has financed a B.D. and
an M.A. in the last seven years on
the strength of his illustrated
talks concerning Peanuts and the-ology.
He is now studying for his
doctorate degree at the Divinity
School of the University of Chi-churches
during the next twenty-f
our months. Do Conference
churches really want to pay the
price for quality higher educa-tion?
The move by the Federal Gov-ernment
to support specific pro-jects
and programs in church-re-lated
institutions is challenging the
denominations to serious study of
church-state relations. The "Wall
of Separation", coined by Thomas
Jefferson, should be demytholo-gized.
There was a time when a man
or a group could strike out into
the wilderness. He could be free,
Letters to the Editor:
To the Editor:
I must commend the Class of
1969 for their fortitude in with-standing
freshman initiation this
year.
It was "all in the spirit of fun",
but is that the kind of fun we
want on our campus? Tuesday
night's "ceremony" can be com-pared
to the hazing ritual on many
secular campuses.
I maintain, however, that Bethel
in any way or form, but it should
be obvious to the senate and
faculty that a rigid dress code
is totally impracticle on Bethel's
campus. Enforcement is virtually
impossible and can only be ac-complished
by some sort of po-lice
force, the very idea of which
is absurd.
In addition, our "dining hall' is
really just a functional cafeteria.
At any one of the three meals stu-dents
might be coming from or
going to anything from work to
physical education class. Draw your
own conclusions? Is a dress code
practical under these circum-stances?
A consistent effort to be neat
and discreet without the absurdity
of a policed dress code is a reason-able
request. It was passed that
dress regulations be published. The
way in which these are treated or
enforced will obviously determine
student reaction to them.
cago. This is his first published
work. Undoubtedly he will be able
to complete his formal training
with help from such a timely and
clear book.
Negative criticisms are never
hard to find: this is not a par-ticularly
scholarly nor well print-ed
book. But on the whole its
merits far outnumber its faults.
The use of the original cartoons
is a most fortunate feature, al-lowing
the text to highlight the
cartoonist's message. And happi-ly
the text steals none of the
force of the original Peanuts. If
anything, Short has laid bare
that Gospel which is veiled to
the mere observer.
The Christian needs this kind of
introduction to pen-sketch sermons.
He will find many opportunities to
witness to those who see the Gos-pel
according to Peanuts, but fail
to see because they have no vision
of faith.
independent, practice religious lib-erty.
Much of our interpretation of
church-state relations arises out of
this wilderness mentality.
Now there is no wilderness,
save the dubious state of non-involvement
or the citadel of
separatistic isolationism.
In this revolutionary age the
church, including the Conference
Baptists, will need to spell out
religious liberty in trems of popu-lation
explosion, technological and
scientific cultural mores, centrali-zation
and polarization of political,
economic, educational and social
forces.
is not a secular campus and there
is no place for such un-Christian
activity here. We wish to wel-come
the freshmen, not make
them regret they ever came.
I don't have to mention what
went on. Ask any freshman! "It
was kind of mean." "If they had
been a little more considerate it
would have been fun." "It hurt!"
"My good slacks are ruined." "Look
at the mess on this blouse!"
The purpose of the beanie tra-dition
is to unite the incoming
class. Why couldn't those in
charge have given out the paper
bags (to replace the stolen bean-ies)
and the numbers (on the
forehead) and let it go at that?
I do not wish to blame those
responsible for allowing things to
get out of hand (as they most cer-tainly
did get out of hand), nor do
I wish to blame those upper-classmen
who participated directly
in the initiation.
Rather, I would hope that this
letter brings to the attention of
the Administration and future Wel-come
Week Committees the un-
Christian aspects involved in hold-ing
any kind of initiation ceremony
other than dispensing beanies and
numerals.
Janet Appelquist
Senior Requests ■
Advance Supply
To the Editor:
It is unfortunate to see once
again a great shortage of textbooks
in the bookstore. Many students
including myself have not been
able to secure texts for most of
our courses. One friend in particu-lar,
has not been able to get a
single book for any of his courses.
Surely there is some reason for
this apparent frugality. However,
it is unfortunate that as a result
of this lack of texts, many students
find themselves behind in their
studies at the outset of school.
It seems to me that something
can and should be done about
this problem as it has occurred
nearly every year.
John Larsen
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Volume XL
No. 27
Editor-in-Chief Bill Swenson
News Editor John Halvorsen
Senate Columnst Bernard Johnson
Cultural Columnist Stan Olsen
Sports Columnist Jim Brand
Layout Editor Judy Maim
Copyreader Jackie Sherman
Advertising Manager ..... Fran Malmsten
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Business Manager Gene Peterson
Adviser . Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Cynic Queries Feasibility
Of Senate Dress Code'
Author Short Systematically Reveals
Peanuts"Good Grief' Theology
Soph 'Eggs-Aggerates'
Wednesday, September 29, 1965 the CLARION Page 3
Bethel Expenditures Exceed Income;
Deficit Reduction Planned for 1965
History unfolds as Dr. George Beasley-Murray, Principal of Spur-geon's
College, London, greets Bethel seminary senior, Haddon (Don)
Klingberg, Jr.
Spurgeon's College was founded in 1856 by the most famous
British preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He also established a
church and an orphanage.
Meanwhile, an American admirer, Dr. John Klingberg, Don's grand-father,
named his eldest son Haddon (the name Don also bears) and
established an orphanage in New Britain, Conn.
Today a collection of Spurgeon's sermons and works begun by Dr.
John Klingberg is still growing through the efforts of the Haddon
Klingbergs, father and son.
by Kathy Harvie
Bethel's educational advances in the last three
years have exceeded income for current operational
expenses.
These advances are to be seen in Bethel's teacher
certification programs, the scheduling of new aca-demic
programs, remodeling of the education house
and new art laboratory, and the library.
In the past year the faculty has been increased
by seven permanent positions. Twelve new part-time
faculty members bolster this year's educational
program.
In addition, Bethel has a new Vice President
for Business Affairs. The Administration and faculty
have been given a three per cent raise in salary as
well as increased travel allowances for professional
betterment.
1965 has been designated as the year to catch
up on these advanced expenditures. The plan is for
this year's budget to absorb one half the deficit,
while the other half is to be raised through gifts.
According to College Dean Clifford Larson,
"The cut back this year essentially involves a
minimum of remodeling of the present campus.
On the other hand, certain changes have been made
in order to insure the continued growth of our
educational program."
In spite of the increased enrollment, Bethel's stu-dent-
teacher ratio is still approximately 17-1. Bethel
remains the least expensive of any accredited liberal
arts private college in the state of Minnesota due to
the fact that Bethel students are underwritten by
approximately three hundred dollars of gift income
per student per year.
The college budget shows an increase in the
Educational and General Purposes funds from $1,-
025,000 in 1964-65 to $1,077,000 in 1965-66. This year's
scholarship and grant program for the college and
seminary has been cut back to $88,275.
The current indebtedness has no relationship
to either the building of the new seminary nor the
new college. Actually, Bethel is receiving more
money in current gifts than ever before due to
the building program.
Contribution income from our Conference churches
through the United Mission for Christ has been most
encouraging this year. Charles Furgeson, Director
of Development, points out that, "For the first four
months of this year, the contribution income for all
departments of the Baptist General Conference
through the United Mission for Christ program is up
25% over last year."
The foul weather, not a shortage of money, has
delayed the completion of the new Seminary. Most
of the expenses of the seminary buildings under
construction have been pledged.
Contingent upon raising the remainder of funds
for the Seminary Student Center, the Kresge Foun-dation
has pledged $25,000 for this addition.
The three year Living Investment Forward Thrust
capital gifts program (LIFT), formally completed this
spring, continues as a stimulating stewardship ideal
throughout the constituency.
Student Senate's Goals Professors To Attend Conference On
Set Forth by President Authority And Inspiration of Scripture
continued from page one
—aspirations and optimism have
developed with the season.
With some areas of communica-tion
and expression the Senate can
deal directly. For example, better
communication with faculty and
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greater use of student representa-tives
on faculty committees.
But the areas of communica-tion
and expression which are
perhaps the more vital are those
personal ones with which no neat
and systematic project can deal.
We of our community have, like
much of our culture, made com-munication
largely a narrow and
one-way street. Instead of hearing
what others think, we tell them
what they should think; instead of
seeking to express what we feel,
we try to find what we should feel.
A Danish philosopher has said,
"There are many people who reach
their conclusions in life like school-boys;
they cheat their master by
copying the answer without having
worked out the sum for them-selves."
And likewise there are many
self-styled "little masters" who
hand out answers with little
genuine respect or concern for
the schoolboys' personal experi-ence
and development.
T h e campus atmosphere for
which this year's senate president
is hoping is simply one of openess
and honesty, plus a warm respect
for these characteristics in others.
by Mary Ellen Wells
Dr. Robert H. Mounce, Professor
of Biblical Literature and Greek
at Bethel College, and Dr. Berkeley
Mikelson, professor of New Testa-ment
Theology at Bethel Seminary,
will attend a Conference on the
Authority of Scripture June 20-30
at Gordon College in Boston, Mas-sachussetts.
"The purpose of this conference,"
said Dr. Mounce, "is to discuss the
whole matter of authority of Scrip-ture
and to articulate a Biblical
view of inspiration."
Dr. Mounce feels that this con-ference
will be instrumental in
reaffirming an Evangelical stand
against neo-orthodoxy and liber-alism
that seem to be under-mining
the Bible's place in many
of our pulpits.
Evangelical Bible scholars from
all over the world will be traveling
to this conference. Outstanding
American scholars included in the
conference are Dr. Edward John
Carnell of Fuller Theological Sem-inary,
Dr. Bernard Ramm of Cali-fornia
Baptist Seminary, Dr. Carl
F. H. Henry, editor of Christianity
Today and Dr. Gordon H. Clark
of Butler University.
Although these men will all be
conservative scholars holding a
high opinion of Scripture, Dr.
Mounce feels there will be a heal-thy
disagreement when discussing
minor points of inspiration.
The conference will be conduct-ed
with a debate format. First,
papers concerning the discussion
topic will be distributed. Then
two individuals with previous
knowledge of the topic will de-bate.
The subject will then be
opened to the audience for re-action.
Discussion will last from early
morning to late in the evening.
Bethany Baptist Church
2025 W. Skillman at Cleveland St. Paul
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. College-age class
Morning Worship, 11 a.m.
Evening Service, 7 p.m.
College-age Fellowship After Evening Service
Albert Windham Dennis Smith
Pastor Youth Pastor
(Bus leaves Bodien at 9:30 a.m. — cars at 6:45 p.m.)
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"Dear Abbey" is written bi-weekly by three alumni of Bethel
College reflecting on their campus experience.
Rienhold Neibuhr, after attending a meeting on race relations, re-flected
"It seems to me rather unfortunate that we must depend upon
the 'publicans' for our social conscience to so great a degree while the
`saints' develop their private virtues and let the city as such fry in
its iniquities."
This situation is doubly unfortunate in that it extends to the
larger realm of American social mores and value standards. While the
"saints" have exhausted their energies persecuting their fellow "saints"
or in morbid introspection of their fears and insecurities, the voices
of materialism, the "new morality," and the "leisure class ethic" have
molded modern American society.
The Church has even listened to these voices itself so that our
young people never question the validity of the Hollywood concept of
love nor feel that their faith has any bearing on their decision to buy
a new car.
The place of the church in the world is that of a prophet. It must
stand in judgement of the world and the world's values. Increasingly,
the Church has evaded this responsibility.
We want our young men to go into "respectable positions". A
Christian doctor recently advised his son not to go into medicine because
of his disgust with the deterioration of ethical standards among doctors.
We are more concerned that a Christian might be influenced by corrupt
politics than that a Christian voice might be heard in politics.
Even in our pulpits the prophet is muted out of fearing of offend-ing
someone. The fact that a congregation liked the minister's morn-ing
sermon may be, as Neibuhr suggests, because "either his mes-sage
is too innocuous to deserve opposition, or too conventional to
arouse it."
Is the Church to be a prophet within society or will it content
itself with an acceptance of the secular mores of the day and retreat
from the places where its voice is needed?
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Morning Worship 8:40 and 10:50 C'YF 5:30
Sunday School 9:45 Evening Service 7:00
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Charlotte Ransom, Education Secretary
Pastor's phone: UN 6-6249
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Campus pastor Al Glenn greets some of the first returning Bethel-ites
at Wood Lake Football Camp. The two week pre-season session pre-pares
the men spiritually and athletically for a rough and tumble fall.
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Sunday School 9:30 Morning Service 10:45
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Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, September 29, 1965
by Dave Fredine
Gene Glader, varsity cross coun-try
coach at Bethel for the last
five years, is optimistic about the
'65-'66 squad's chances, improve-ment,
and attitude: "If these guys
keep working, this could be our
best team."
SATURDAY MEET
In 30 degree weather, Beth-el's
cross country team lost
last Saturday's meet to Bemid-ji
State 23 to 51.
The first five men placed
2nd, 3rd, 13th, 16th, & 17th.
Dick Olson's 2nd place time
was 19'27". Bob Chryst took
third with a time of 19'36".
Coach Gene Glader arranged
a return meet to be held here
on October 23.
Coach Glader came to Bethel in
1960 as a physical education in-structor
and track coach. As well
as assisting with football and bas-basketball
that first year, he organ-ized
Bethel's first cross country
team. Track was Glader's sport for
the eight years of his athletic car-eer.
He ran the hurdles in high
school and college (the first two
years of which were spent at Beth-el).
This year's team is again small.
Only seven men will run this
year—graduation, transfers and
schedule problems have made
several men unavailable. Glader
says this is typical of cross coun-try
in this area, where "cross
country is just getting off the
ground."
College cross country meets are
run as one race 3.5 to 4 miles
long, although toward the end of
the season a few are 6 miles. The
courses are usually laid out on
large athletic fields or golf courses.
Meets are scored by adding the
finishing places of the first five
runners from each team. The low-est
score wins.
The team members worked out
on their own last summer and
have been running together twice
a day as a team since September
1 0 . Morning workouts cover
about 3 miles through the city
between the campus and Como
Park. Afternoon workouts, cov-ering
4-6 miles, are run around
Como Park or the Como Golf
course.
The seven men on this year's
team include Dick Olson, B o h
Chryst, Steve Roe, Leon Anderson,
Norm Kern, Jim Erickson and Dave
Biddle. Coach Glacier tabs Olson
and Chryst as the two who will
probably compete for the number
one spot. Chryst, a sophomore, is
the only returnee from last year's
team where has was second and
third man. Dick Olson ran cross
country and track in high school
and has run a 4'30" mile.
Coach Glader was not disap-pointed
by the team's Sept. 18 loss
to strong St. Olaf, since the team
is just now rounding into shape.
Attributing part of the lack of
conditioning to registration week
interruptions, he looks forward to
more work, more improvement and
several good seasons from the
team.
The Bethel Royals football team
dropped the opening game to Ham-line
University 8-6, but bounced
back the next week to edge a
strong Sioux Falls College team
12-6.
In the opening game against the
Pipers at Hamline stadium, the
Royals combined a running and ari-al
attack by utilizing junior quar-terback
Bob Nolin, halfbacks Bar-nett
Cox and Don Land, and Dave
Moss at fullback. Nolin's principal
receivers were Orlon Lundberg and
John Carmean.
The Hamline eleven drew first
blood as they marched down to
the Royal four yard line. Quar-terback
Don Klohn set up the
tally as the Pipers scored, and
were successful in the two-point
conversion attempt. Thus in the
second period, the Royals trail-ed
8-0.
Slamming off tackle, Moss picked
up valuable yardage in sustaining
the second and third period driv-ers,
but the Royals were continu-ally
stopped short of paydirt. The
Royals yielded the ball with 10:06
showing on the scoreboard clock,
held the Pipers for three downs,
and forced the opponents to kick
from their own 33 yard line. Cox
picked off the punt and raced
sixty yards for the lone Bethel
tally.
In the Sioux Falls encounter, the
offense began rolling as Nolin took
to the air, completing 10 out of
13 passes. The defensive line plac-ed
pressure on the young Sioux
Falls quarterback, culminating fin-ally
in a pass interception by Lund-berg.
Both Royal tallies were scored
on passes from Nolin to Lund-berg.
The first, coming after a
long march by the Royals put
the St. Paul team ahead 6-0 as
the attempted extra point by
Larry Peterson was kicked wide.
The second touchdown was a
four yard pass.
Utilizing a young team, and a
small offensive line, the Royals will
face Lakeland College this week-end
at Midway stadium in the open-ing
home game. The Royals whal-loped
Lakeland last year 33-12, but
Coach Cox is not expecting an easy
game. The new head coach has
practiced long sessions every day
with the team, hoping to add more
playing experience to young men.
Saturday's game will be at 1:30
p.m.
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The traditional knock-down, drag-out
intramural season began Sat-urday,
September 25, with eight of
the nine teams participating in
touch football. Eight games are
planned for the season which pro-mises
to be a real thriller.
The nine teams—Barons, Cunts,
Dukes, Jesters, Knights, Pages,
Peasants, Squires, and Seminary
are busy practicing and recruit-ing
new players. Intramural Sup-ervisor
Tom Johnson (P. 0. 871)
says that anyone who is interested
in playing intramurals, but hasn't
been contacted should leave a note
in his P.O. today.
For those who don't participate
in football, there will be tennis
tournaments, a bowling roll-off,
a swimming tournament, ping-po
ng championships, handball
play-offs, and for the "intellec-tuals",
there will even be a chess
tournament. Keep your eyes on
the intramural bulletin board in
the fieldhouse to be informed on
the upcoming events.
Showing tremendous strength in
the first games were the Jesters,
and the Peasants. T h e Jesters
blanked the Pages 21 to 0 under
the leadership of quarterback Jim
Austin. The Peasants wiped the
Knights 13 to 0 behind the tre-mendous
passing of Dan Gross.
Next week pits the Jesters a-gainst
the Dukes; Peasants versus
the Seminary Knights facing the
Barons; and the Squires chase the
Pages with the Counts getting a
bye.
Valiant Royals Drop First Encounter;
Victorious with Nolin-Lundberg Duo
Bethel football returns to Midway Stadium this Saturday. For most
of the students this means blaring bands, stale popcorn, bubbly Cokes ;
new fall sweaters, screaming voices, and maybe, if the Bethel male
is bolder this year, dating companions.
But for 38 other students clad in full football armor, Bethel football
means little less than 60 minutes of concentrated, strenuous physical
exertion. Football from the player's perspective is much different than
from the fan's.
For instance how many fans know much about pre-season prepara-tion?
Every year two weeks before the season's opener, prospective
players gather in the fieldhouse, receive their equipment, and head for
one of the most unique experiences in their lives.
The Bethel Royals hold their pre-season practice at Wood Lake
Camp, a church camp near Grantsburg, Wisconsin. After unloading his
equipment and a small suitcase from the school bus, each player heads
for the cabin to which he has been assigned. This is home for a week
and a half. It comes furnished with slightly sagging bunk beds, paneled
walls, and a very workable oil heater (some nights are cold, even
in August).
Life is regimented for the next ten days except for a Sunday break.
Every cabin but one rises at 7:00. That one lucky cabin rises at 6:45 to
set the breakfast table. Each cabin rotates kitchen duty. After breakfast
the guys return to their cabins to read, listen to the radio, play rook,
clean up the cabin or sleep. Morning practice is at 9:30. It generally
lasts until 11:30.
Strenuous drills, scrimmages, and conditioning exercises fill these
two hours. After practice everyone stumbles down the hill which sep-arates
the camp from the practice field and hurries either to the
shower room or the lake (which this year felt about 50 degrees).
Lunch at 12:30 is followed by sack time until 3:00. One averages
9-10 hours of sleep per day, which is needed. At 3:00 the players
meet with the coach in the camp's chapel for a "chalk talk" which
generally means learning responsibilities for different playing positions.
The two hour afternoon practice starts at 4:30. Although the nights
can be cool, the days are often quite hot and practice is a sweaty
affair. After a couple of days a player's muscles are stiff from
exercise, his bones are sore from tackling and blocking, and the
practice field is ground to sand as 80 feet trample the same spots over
and over. But all this is part of the physical and psychological con-ditioning.
Supper is next and like all the meals is delicious.
A brief devotional service ends the day. Various well known
speakers (Dr. Dalton, Mr. Jessup, Pastor Glenn, Dean Muck) take
turns on different nights talking to the guys. This is not an easy
task, for some are starting to doze already. Lights are out by 10:00.
Football players leave camp physically and psychologically tired,
but strong. More important, they are developing a sense of unity through
working together in this isolated camp.
Intramural Teams Begin
Touch Football Season

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Returning travelers David Beek, Roger Waldenstrom, William J. Swenson and Bernard Johnson join
hands after returning from successful projects abroad. Beek studied for nine months in the University of
Wisconsin's Junior Year in India program. CLARION Editor Swenson spent a two month summer visiting
Thailand with the University of Minnesota-sponsored Student Project for Amity among Nations. Waldenstrom
and Johnson traveled to Guatemala and Alaska, respectively, as part of the Bethel College Student Mission-ary
Project.
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, September 29, 1965
Royal Players Invade the Southland
With Modern Christian Drama Message
Campus Pilgrimage Led
By Student Missionaries
Eight students are returning to Bethel this year with a summer of
missionary service directly behind them.
The students, sent and supported by chapel offerings, were Bernard
Johnson to Sanborne, Alaska; Sharon Larson and Phyllis Nelson to
Ixmiquilpan, Mexico; Dick Putnam to the Bronx, New York; Mildred
Stockwell to Tarejero, Mexico; Roger Waldenstrom to Barillas, Guate-mala;
and Mr. and Mrs. Ben West to Grand Portage, Minnesota.
The experiences and impressions of the students varied. Bernard
Johnson, aside from chapel duties, also filled in at a dispensary before
a nurse arrived.
"I came closer than I ever wanted to in delivering a baby," claims
Bernard.
Prexy Outlines
Hopes For Year
by Bill Madsen
Bill Madsen is the elected
president of the Bethel College
Student Association.
Bernard found the Aleut people "reluctant to make public any
decision for Christ. They would give Christ a trial run and then would
drop in at the chapel and ask for further guidance."
Mildred Stockwell served as a teacher to missionary children. Since
there are no missionary schools in Mexico, she was impressed by the
need for teachers for these children. Her clinical work provided a
main contact with the Mexican people.
"It was especially a privilege to be there this year," Mildred com-mented.
"Building a church out of people who steal, cheat, and lie
takes many years. But the church is maturing and the people are now
beginning to go out."
Sharon Larson and Phyllis Nelson spent the summer weekdays at
a translation center helping to write a book of translator's helps. On the
weekends they traveled to the little
village of Titzu where they met
and talked with the people.
The Christian Indians impressed
Sharon the most.
"They are very much persecu-ted
for their faith. Yet, they
appreciate the chance to be per-secuted.
Other people know now
that they are Christians."
Roger Waldenstrom operated a
radio station in a little Guatemalan
village. The station broadcasted
each evening in three languages.
Roger explained that the people
there have a totally different con-cept
of salvation. They are not
saved from their sins, but from
rituals. When they accept Christ
as Savior, they are pulled away
from their old customs of ap-proaching
the witch doctor on
such matters as marriage and prop-erty.
The inscription on a graduation
card read, "Greetings and a mes-sage
from the working world—ge
back to school, it's a rat race out
here."
With similar feelings many of us
begin the 1965-66 school year at
Bethel. Beyond that, most of us
tome with new aspir90 ,Ins, enthu-siasm,
and optimism. With these
feelings come the dangers of dis-appointment
and disillusionment,
for without them growth and pro-gress
are impeded.
Parting advisory words of last
year's Senate president were, "Be
thinking about and decide early
what you want to do next year
—overall—the attitude and atmo-sphere
you'd like to see on cam-pus."
For one long concerned with the
problems of communication and
self expression the choice was easy
continued on page three
"New Talents"
Bow Saturday
The Bethel College Drama Depart-ment
will sponsor "New Talents",
an evening of dramatic presenta-tions
on Saturday, October 2, at
8 p.m. in the College Auditorium.
Scenes from three different plays
will attempt to give the audience
a sample of the variety of expres-sion
possible through the medium
of drama.
Scenes from the Shakespearean
classic, Julius Caesar, will be pre-sented
in modern dress. A religi-ous
drama, entitled Servant in the
House, deals with the struggle of
a preacher against his wife's high
ambitions for him.
Those who enjoyed last year's
"mellow-dramie", The Curse of an
Aching Heart, will enjoy Pure as
the Driven Snow, another hero-heroine-
villian production.
Guest directors are respectively,
Elliot Donnells, David Whitney, and
Joe Marcea. Promising new talent
is featured in this first of a series
of Drama Department presenta-tions.
Tickets will be sold at the
door for 50c. per person or 75c
per couple.
Most of us began to think about
wandering back to Bethel in mid-
August.
Not Dale Rott's Royal Players.
In fact that's the time they em-barked
on a long trek of one
night stands through the heart-land
of the Old South.
Destination? Miami.
"Our first summer tour was un-usual
in several ways," explains
one tired director. "First, we cov-ered
more mileage than on any
previous tour—almost 5000. Sec-ondly,
we went to Florida in the
summer."
"Thirdly, we kept a tight sched-ule.
The kids had only one day
off. Fourthly, at one Florida
church we received the highest
offering ever."
"Fifthly, we presented "Adam
and Eve Meet the Atom" at the
Religious Drama Project of the
American Educational Theater As-sociation."
This professional soci-ety
gleans its membership from
high school, college, and profes-sional
institutions in the United
States and Canada.
Adam and Eve . .. was present-ed
in a typical church performance
situation. A lively discussion fol-lowed
concerning the script, pro-duction,
and touring to churches
in general. Mr. Rott was appointed
Chairman of the Association's Re-ligious
Drama Project.
CONQUEST IN BURMA, the old
stand-by of the Royal Players,
was presented to various church-es
all over Florida and was well
received as usual. Touring troupe
members included T. Harrison,
"Tuffy' Bryant, Bonnie Toays,
Daryl Berg, Vince Bloom, Phoe-be
Netterlund, and the director,
Gale Rott.
Despite their exhausting sched-ule,
most of the troupe considered
Dr. George Beasley-Murray is
Principal of Spurgeon's College,
London. He was the principle
speaker at the opening academic
convocation of the collegiate
year.
In the forecourt of an art mu-seum
in Moscow there is a statue
of a labouring man hammering a
sword into the shape of a plough-share.
Beneath it are the words,
"We must turn our swords into
ploughshares".
This is a fine aspiration for a
people to have and we should en-courage
it. The sculptor who carv-ed
that statue, however, • could
hardly have been ignorant of the
fact that he was putting into stone
a vision from the Bible—the prom-ise
of a day when God shall bring
into being a new order of peace
and righteousness, when men shall
"beat their swords into plough-shares
and their spears into prun-ing
hooks; nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more".
The Bible declares that that day
will be the gift of God to man.
The Communist also looks for it,
but he does not look to God for
it. The worker is his own mes-siah,
and by the strength of his
arms he will achieve his own
deliverance. For him the king-dom
of God has become the
kingdom of the working man.
The Christian Church has been
long enough on its course to know
that this kind of reinterpretation
—neither the first nor the last in
history—is doomed to be shattered
by the ruthless facts of life. Only
God can bring to reality the age-long
dream of man. Yet the Church
has the good news about it for the
world. The news is not alone that
God will do it, but that He has
done it and is doing it and will
complete it by His Christ.
The kingdom of God is God's
royal power in action to save man.
That power was the secret of the
life and work of Jesus. It is the
secret of the Church's existence
today. For the Church is the people
called to know the power of God's
saving sovereignty. And it is called
not only to experience it, but to
embody it and to be its instrument
in the world. This is its mission.
In carrying out this task the
Christian College and University
have an important role. The great
universities of Oxford and Cam-bridge
were once regarded in
England as the seminaries of the
Church; they provided the
Church and the nation with men
to serve both in the fear of God.
By no stretch of the imagination
can they be so viewed today,
though there are many fine
Christians in our British univer-sities.
This very aim, however, is surely
the inspiration of the dual insti-tution
in whose interests we are
met today. The Bethel Seminary
exists to enable men to take the
Good News of the Kingdom to your
nation and to all the world. The
College has a related task, for
every Christian man and woman
has a vocation from God and the
service of God's kingdom embraces
the totality of culture.
Both College and Seminary have
the task of opening the eyes of
young men and women to the
breadth and majesty and power of
God's sovereignty among men, to
help them grasp the immense po-tentiality
of their lives when they
are opened to the powers of that
kingdom, and to equip them to
serve their fellows by bringing it
to them.
"Seek first the kingdom of God"
is Christ's word to men. Through
Him the kingdom has come and
shall come. His word is promise
and vocation in one. The promise
supplies the zest and the power to
fulfil the vocation.
FESTIVAL CHOIR
Auditions for the Festival
Choir will continue until 4:30
p.m. Thursday, September 30.
Interested students should con-tact
directors Berglund, Mogck,
Smith, or Whitinger of the
Music Department for appoint-ments.
the tour a rewarding experience
from the standpoint of bringing a
challenging message to a wide
variety of audiences of varying
Christian experience.
Visiting British Lecturer Examines
Christian's Potentialities of Power
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, September 29, 1965
New Federal Programs
Boost Construction Aid
Many of us heard the news of the Conference's decision
on the federal aid issue, well, somewhat less than enthusias-tically.
Cheer up. Very soon the signature "Lyndon Baines
Johnson" will be inked on one of the potentially most im-portant
papers in Bethel's history.
Provisions? Gather 'round all ye new campus idealists: the
House version doubles the amount of federal money available
for the construction of undergraduate facilities in fiscal 1966
—from $230 million to $460 million. And ye social science and
humanities majors: the rules restricting use of federal funds
to the natural sciences, languages and libraries are being
lifted.
And ye debtors too: the NDEA kitty available for grants is
being increased to $64.4 million in fiscal 1966 and a projected
$70 million in fiscal 1968, including new provisions for needy
underclassmen. All adopted by a whopping House vote of
367-22.
The Senate plans no less than a $672 construction alloca-tion,
in fiscal 1966, plus graduated amounts increasing upward
over the next five years to $1.1 billion in fiscal 1970.
And fellow Baptists, thanks to the efforts of Everett
McKinley Dirksen and Rep. Waggoner of Louisiana, BOTH
bills contain a provision specifically barring government in-terference
in "curriculum, instruction, administration, per-sonnel
or selection of library resources" or in the affairs of
any "private club or religious organization" of recipient col-leges.
Now none of us will ever reap individual benefits accord-ing
to these percentages. In fact, much of this money just
may go into building a bigger place for your kid brother to
take Freshman English.
But that's exactly the reason why the Federal government
is deeply extending its commitment in higher education: the
colleges face inflationary and population growth pressures
that are outside of their control
As the tendency to think of higher education and its
direction in terms of public, rather than private terms mush-rooms,
however, so will the identity of private colleges become
harder to define. Does a Christian understanding of the worth
and potential of man lead Bethel closer to, or further away
from, institutions that serve this purpose?
Realistically, the question for Bethel may come to be
answered more than we'd like to admit by what our evan-gelical
sister colleges do. Is it not time to rally to the point
of inter-college discussion?
We all want to conserve the good things in the Bethel heri-tage
we've grown to love. But some of these privileges may
now have slipped into the past: this fall may prove whether
denominational financing is one of them.
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Conference Postpones Final Decision
On Acceptance of Federal Financing
by Jeff Loomis
Kashmir
Cease-fire was declared Wednes-day
in the India-Pakistan clash
over possesion of Kashmir.
Moslem agitators are planning to
continue guerrilla warfare and In-dian
officials still refuse to allow
Kashmir citizens a plebiscite for
determining their political status.
Vatican City
Ecumenical Council participants
this week approved a resolution
committing Roman Catholics to
a doctrine of religious liberty.
The action was hailed by observ-ers
as a move toward further
interfaith unity.
Peking
Chinese officials said Tuesday
that India had responded to their
ultimatum by destroying posts in
the Tibetan hills. India answered
by saying that such posts had nev-er
existed, and thus were not de-troyed.
They then accused the Reds
of building a wall of Berlin variety
along Jhelepla pass above t h e
Chumbi Valley.
Saigon
In end-of-week action, B-52
bombers attacked a Viet Cong con-centration
20 miles north of Saigon
and South Vietnamese troops re-captured
an outpost further north-ward
that had been overrun by the
Viet Cong the day before. Over
600 were killed in the skirmishes.
United Nations
U.S. delegate Arthur Goldberg
Wednesday said before the U.N.
General Assembly that the U. S.
was in South Viet Nam to pre-vent
the Asian nation from be-coming
the first victim of Red
China's attempt at world domina-tion.
Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko
repsonded Thursday by saying U.S.
troops should leave Viet Nam as
a step toward peace.
The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert
L. Short. John Knox Press, 1964, pp. 127
(Paperback, $1.50)
The Gospel According to Peanuts
is an overdue book. The wealth of
spiritual treasure in the comics
had been overlooked, but Robert
Short now reveals that Peanuts is
true spiritual "coin of the realm."
In this small systematic theology
of Peanuts he uses appropriate
cartoons to outline the central
themes to which Charles Schulz
returns continually: the sin and
guilt of man, God's free gift, re-pentance,
the work of Christ, and
the offense of the Cross.
We are introduced to Schulz's
theological plain-talk by such
chapter titles as "The Wages of
Sin is 'Aaaugh!"1, "Good Grief",
and "The Hound of Heaven".
Short suggests that the cartoon
by Virgil A. Olson
Dr. Virgil A. Olson is Profes-sor
of Ecumenics and Church
History in Bethel Theological
Seminary.
The decision was to delay for
two years.
The Baptist General Conference
in its 86th annual session last
June at Akron, Ohio debated the
recommendation that Bethel Col-lege
be allowed to apply for Fed-eral
funds for new buildings on
the Arden Hills Campus under the
Higher Education Facilities Act.
After the extended session of
one of the most encouraging and
enlightening discussions held on
the Conference floor for several
years, it was decided to table
final decision on the HEFA un-til
the 1967 annual meeting.
The representatives from Bethel
encouraged delay on this recom-mendation.
Bethel College will not
be able to use the funds for a few
years, so there is no need for im-mediate
action. Further, the HEFA
constitutionality will undoubtedly
be tested and tried in the courts
before delegates will be required
to vote on this question.
Most important, however, from
a pragmatic point of view, is the
response of t h e Conference
Senate Cynic:
by Bernard Johnson
This year's student senate acti-vities
got off to a roaring start.
President Bill Madsen is to be
commended for his efficiency and
preparation for the start of sen-ate
debate.
The start of senate debate has
been filled with such unusually
thorny problems as (1) what sena-tors
should wear to senate meet-ings,
(2) the monumental traffic
problem in the vicinity of 1480 N.
Snelling Avenue, (3) the mysterious
lack of information concerning the
much talked about campus radio
station, and (4) what to do with
the 26 members of the Swedish
Gospel Choir.
Outside of the budget alloca-tions,
the topic of student dress
dominated discussion.
A student dress code, sometimes
published, sometimes spoken, has
always met with the same reaction:
blatant disrespect.
I'm not against neat dressing
episodes are analogies of adult
life.
The kids of Peanuts like Gold-ing's
boys in Lord of the Flies
show the deep roots of adult evil.
But the pessimism of Golding con-trasts
sharply with the undeniable
optimism of Peanuts. Schulz is an
evangelical who believes the Gospel
is goad news.
But Peanuts is in an unknown
tongue so the author tries to in-troduce
us to it. Once we speak
the same tongue he contents him-self
with bringing about the frame
of mind in which we can hear Pea-nuts
in all its child-like simplicity
and forcefulness.
Robert Short is a graduate stu-dent
who has financed a B.D. and
an M.A. in the last seven years on
the strength of his illustrated
talks concerning Peanuts and the-ology.
He is now studying for his
doctorate degree at the Divinity
School of the University of Chi-churches
during the next twenty-f
our months. Do Conference
churches really want to pay the
price for quality higher educa-tion?
The move by the Federal Gov-ernment
to support specific pro-jects
and programs in church-re-lated
institutions is challenging the
denominations to serious study of
church-state relations. The "Wall
of Separation", coined by Thomas
Jefferson, should be demytholo-gized.
There was a time when a man
or a group could strike out into
the wilderness. He could be free,
Letters to the Editor:
To the Editor:
I must commend the Class of
1969 for their fortitude in with-standing
freshman initiation this
year.
It was "all in the spirit of fun",
but is that the kind of fun we
want on our campus? Tuesday
night's "ceremony" can be com-pared
to the hazing ritual on many
secular campuses.
I maintain, however, that Bethel
in any way or form, but it should
be obvious to the senate and
faculty that a rigid dress code
is totally impracticle on Bethel's
campus. Enforcement is virtually
impossible and can only be ac-complished
by some sort of po-lice
force, the very idea of which
is absurd.
In addition, our "dining hall' is
really just a functional cafeteria.
At any one of the three meals stu-dents
might be coming from or
going to anything from work to
physical education class. Draw your
own conclusions? Is a dress code
practical under these circum-stances?
A consistent effort to be neat
and discreet without the absurdity
of a policed dress code is a reason-able
request. It was passed that
dress regulations be published. The
way in which these are treated or
enforced will obviously determine
student reaction to them.
cago. This is his first published
work. Undoubtedly he will be able
to complete his formal training
with help from such a timely and
clear book.
Negative criticisms are never
hard to find: this is not a par-ticularly
scholarly nor well print-ed
book. But on the whole its
merits far outnumber its faults.
The use of the original cartoons
is a most fortunate feature, al-lowing
the text to highlight the
cartoonist's message. And happi-ly
the text steals none of the
force of the original Peanuts. If
anything, Short has laid bare
that Gospel which is veiled to
the mere observer.
The Christian needs this kind of
introduction to pen-sketch sermons.
He will find many opportunities to
witness to those who see the Gos-pel
according to Peanuts, but fail
to see because they have no vision
of faith.
independent, practice religious lib-erty.
Much of our interpretation of
church-state relations arises out of
this wilderness mentality.
Now there is no wilderness,
save the dubious state of non-involvement
or the citadel of
separatistic isolationism.
In this revolutionary age the
church, including the Conference
Baptists, will need to spell out
religious liberty in trems of popu-lation
explosion, technological and
scientific cultural mores, centrali-zation
and polarization of political,
economic, educational and social
forces.
is not a secular campus and there
is no place for such un-Christian
activity here. We wish to wel-come
the freshmen, not make
them regret they ever came.
I don't have to mention what
went on. Ask any freshman! "It
was kind of mean." "If they had
been a little more considerate it
would have been fun." "It hurt!"
"My good slacks are ruined." "Look
at the mess on this blouse!"
The purpose of the beanie tra-dition
is to unite the incoming
class. Why couldn't those in
charge have given out the paper
bags (to replace the stolen bean-ies)
and the numbers (on the
forehead) and let it go at that?
I do not wish to blame those
responsible for allowing things to
get out of hand (as they most cer-tainly
did get out of hand), nor do
I wish to blame those upper-classmen
who participated directly
in the initiation.
Rather, I would hope that this
letter brings to the attention of
the Administration and future Wel-come
Week Committees the un-
Christian aspects involved in hold-ing
any kind of initiation ceremony
other than dispensing beanies and
numerals.
Janet Appelquist
Senior Requests ■
Advance Supply
To the Editor:
It is unfortunate to see once
again a great shortage of textbooks
in the bookstore. Many students
including myself have not been
able to secure texts for most of
our courses. One friend in particu-lar,
has not been able to get a
single book for any of his courses.
Surely there is some reason for
this apparent frugality. However,
it is unfortunate that as a result
of this lack of texts, many students
find themselves behind in their
studies at the outset of school.
It seems to me that something
can and should be done about
this problem as it has occurred
nearly every year.
John Larsen
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 27
Editor-in-Chief Bill Swenson
News Editor John Halvorsen
Senate Columnst Bernard Johnson
Cultural Columnist Stan Olsen
Sports Columnist Jim Brand
Layout Editor Judy Maim
Copyreader Jackie Sherman
Advertising Manager ..... Fran Malmsten
Advertising Assistant ......._..... Vic Van Campen
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Adviser . Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Cynic Queries Feasibility
Of Senate Dress Code'
Author Short Systematically Reveals
Peanuts"Good Grief' Theology
Soph 'Eggs-Aggerates'
Wednesday, September 29, 1965 the CLARION Page 3
Bethel Expenditures Exceed Income;
Deficit Reduction Planned for 1965
History unfolds as Dr. George Beasley-Murray, Principal of Spur-geon's
College, London, greets Bethel seminary senior, Haddon (Don)
Klingberg, Jr.
Spurgeon's College was founded in 1856 by the most famous
British preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He also established a
church and an orphanage.
Meanwhile, an American admirer, Dr. John Klingberg, Don's grand-father,
named his eldest son Haddon (the name Don also bears) and
established an orphanage in New Britain, Conn.
Today a collection of Spurgeon's sermons and works begun by Dr.
John Klingberg is still growing through the efforts of the Haddon
Klingbergs, father and son.
by Kathy Harvie
Bethel's educational advances in the last three
years have exceeded income for current operational
expenses.
These advances are to be seen in Bethel's teacher
certification programs, the scheduling of new aca-demic
programs, remodeling of the education house
and new art laboratory, and the library.
In the past year the faculty has been increased
by seven permanent positions. Twelve new part-time
faculty members bolster this year's educational
program.
In addition, Bethel has a new Vice President
for Business Affairs. The Administration and faculty
have been given a three per cent raise in salary as
well as increased travel allowances for professional
betterment.
1965 has been designated as the year to catch
up on these advanced expenditures. The plan is for
this year's budget to absorb one half the deficit,
while the other half is to be raised through gifts.
According to College Dean Clifford Larson,
"The cut back this year essentially involves a
minimum of remodeling of the present campus.
On the other hand, certain changes have been made
in order to insure the continued growth of our
educational program."
In spite of the increased enrollment, Bethel's stu-dent-
teacher ratio is still approximately 17-1. Bethel
remains the least expensive of any accredited liberal
arts private college in the state of Minnesota due to
the fact that Bethel students are underwritten by
approximately three hundred dollars of gift income
per student per year.
The college budget shows an increase in the
Educational and General Purposes funds from $1,-
025,000 in 1964-65 to $1,077,000 in 1965-66. This year's
scholarship and grant program for the college and
seminary has been cut back to $88,275.
The current indebtedness has no relationship
to either the building of the new seminary nor the
new college. Actually, Bethel is receiving more
money in current gifts than ever before due to
the building program.
Contribution income from our Conference churches
through the United Mission for Christ has been most
encouraging this year. Charles Furgeson, Director
of Development, points out that, "For the first four
months of this year, the contribution income for all
departments of the Baptist General Conference
through the United Mission for Christ program is up
25% over last year."
The foul weather, not a shortage of money, has
delayed the completion of the new Seminary. Most
of the expenses of the seminary buildings under
construction have been pledged.
Contingent upon raising the remainder of funds
for the Seminary Student Center, the Kresge Foun-dation
has pledged $25,000 for this addition.
The three year Living Investment Forward Thrust
capital gifts program (LIFT), formally completed this
spring, continues as a stimulating stewardship ideal
throughout the constituency.
Student Senate's Goals Professors To Attend Conference On
Set Forth by President Authority And Inspiration of Scripture
continued from page one
—aspirations and optimism have
developed with the season.
With some areas of communica-tion
and expression the Senate can
deal directly. For example, better
communication with faculty and
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administration can be facilitated by
greater use of student representa-tives
on faculty committees.
But the areas of communica-tion
and expression which are
perhaps the more vital are those
personal ones with which no neat
and systematic project can deal.
We of our community have, like
much of our culture, made com-munication
largely a narrow and
one-way street. Instead of hearing
what others think, we tell them
what they should think; instead of
seeking to express what we feel,
we try to find what we should feel.
A Danish philosopher has said,
"There are many people who reach
their conclusions in life like school-boys;
they cheat their master by
copying the answer without having
worked out the sum for them-selves."
And likewise there are many
self-styled "little masters" who
hand out answers with little
genuine respect or concern for
the schoolboys' personal experi-ence
and development.
T h e campus atmosphere for
which this year's senate president
is hoping is simply one of openess
and honesty, plus a warm respect
for these characteristics in others.
by Mary Ellen Wells
Dr. Robert H. Mounce, Professor
of Biblical Literature and Greek
at Bethel College, and Dr. Berkeley
Mikelson, professor of New Testa-ment
Theology at Bethel Seminary,
will attend a Conference on the
Authority of Scripture June 20-30
at Gordon College in Boston, Mas-sachussetts.
"The purpose of this conference,"
said Dr. Mounce, "is to discuss the
whole matter of authority of Scrip-ture
and to articulate a Biblical
view of inspiration."
Dr. Mounce feels that this con-ference
will be instrumental in
reaffirming an Evangelical stand
against neo-orthodoxy and liber-alism
that seem to be under-mining
the Bible's place in many
of our pulpits.
Evangelical Bible scholars from
all over the world will be traveling
to this conference. Outstanding
American scholars included in the
conference are Dr. Edward John
Carnell of Fuller Theological Sem-inary,
Dr. Bernard Ramm of Cali-fornia
Baptist Seminary, Dr. Carl
F. H. Henry, editor of Christianity
Today and Dr. Gordon H. Clark
of Butler University.
Although these men will all be
conservative scholars holding a
high opinion of Scripture, Dr.
Mounce feels there will be a heal-thy
disagreement when discussing
minor points of inspiration.
The conference will be conduct-ed
with a debate format. First,
papers concerning the discussion
topic will be distributed. Then
two individuals with previous
knowledge of the topic will de-bate.
The subject will then be
opened to the audience for re-action.
Discussion will last from early
morning to late in the evening.
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Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. College-age class
Morning Worship, 11 a.m.
Evening Service, 7 p.m.
College-age Fellowship After Evening Service
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(Bus leaves Bodien at 9:30 a.m. — cars at 6:45 p.m.)
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"Dear Abbey" is written bi-weekly by three alumni of Bethel
College reflecting on their campus experience.
Rienhold Neibuhr, after attending a meeting on race relations, re-flected
"It seems to me rather unfortunate that we must depend upon
the 'publicans' for our social conscience to so great a degree while the
`saints' develop their private virtues and let the city as such fry in
its iniquities."
This situation is doubly unfortunate in that it extends to the
larger realm of American social mores and value standards. While the
"saints" have exhausted their energies persecuting their fellow "saints"
or in morbid introspection of their fears and insecurities, the voices
of materialism, the "new morality," and the "leisure class ethic" have
molded modern American society.
The Church has even listened to these voices itself so that our
young people never question the validity of the Hollywood concept of
love nor feel that their faith has any bearing on their decision to buy
a new car.
The place of the church in the world is that of a prophet. It must
stand in judgement of the world and the world's values. Increasingly,
the Church has evaded this responsibility.
We want our young men to go into "respectable positions". A
Christian doctor recently advised his son not to go into medicine because
of his disgust with the deterioration of ethical standards among doctors.
We are more concerned that a Christian might be influenced by corrupt
politics than that a Christian voice might be heard in politics.
Even in our pulpits the prophet is muted out of fearing of offend-ing
someone. The fact that a congregation liked the minister's morn-ing
sermon may be, as Neibuhr suggests, because "either his mes-sage
is too innocuous to deserve opposition, or too conventional to
arouse it."
Is the Church to be a prophet within society or will it content
itself with an acceptance of the secular mores of the day and retreat
from the places where its voice is needed?
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Campus pastor Al Glenn greets some of the first returning Bethel-ites
at Wood Lake Football Camp. The two week pre-season session pre-pares
the men spiritually and athletically for a rough and tumble fall.
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Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, September 29, 1965
by Dave Fredine
Gene Glader, varsity cross coun-try
coach at Bethel for the last
five years, is optimistic about the
'65-'66 squad's chances, improve-ment,
and attitude: "If these guys
keep working, this could be our
best team."
SATURDAY MEET
In 30 degree weather, Beth-el's
cross country team lost
last Saturday's meet to Bemid-ji
State 23 to 51.
The first five men placed
2nd, 3rd, 13th, 16th, & 17th.
Dick Olson's 2nd place time
was 19'27". Bob Chryst took
third with a time of 19'36".
Coach Gene Glader arranged
a return meet to be held here
on October 23.
Coach Glader came to Bethel in
1960 as a physical education in-structor
and track coach. As well
as assisting with football and bas-basketball
that first year, he organ-ized
Bethel's first cross country
team. Track was Glader's sport for
the eight years of his athletic car-eer.
He ran the hurdles in high
school and college (the first two
years of which were spent at Beth-el).
This year's team is again small.
Only seven men will run this
year—graduation, transfers and
schedule problems have made
several men unavailable. Glader
says this is typical of cross coun-try
in this area, where "cross
country is just getting off the
ground."
College cross country meets are
run as one race 3.5 to 4 miles
long, although toward the end of
the season a few are 6 miles. The
courses are usually laid out on
large athletic fields or golf courses.
Meets are scored by adding the
finishing places of the first five
runners from each team. The low-est
score wins.
The team members worked out
on their own last summer and
have been running together twice
a day as a team since September
1 0 . Morning workouts cover
about 3 miles through the city
between the campus and Como
Park. Afternoon workouts, cov-ering
4-6 miles, are run around
Como Park or the Como Golf
course.
The seven men on this year's
team include Dick Olson, B o h
Chryst, Steve Roe, Leon Anderson,
Norm Kern, Jim Erickson and Dave
Biddle. Coach Glacier tabs Olson
and Chryst as the two who will
probably compete for the number
one spot. Chryst, a sophomore, is
the only returnee from last year's
team where has was second and
third man. Dick Olson ran cross
country and track in high school
and has run a 4'30" mile.
Coach Glader was not disap-pointed
by the team's Sept. 18 loss
to strong St. Olaf, since the team
is just now rounding into shape.
Attributing part of the lack of
conditioning to registration week
interruptions, he looks forward to
more work, more improvement and
several good seasons from the
team.
The Bethel Royals football team
dropped the opening game to Ham-line
University 8-6, but bounced
back the next week to edge a
strong Sioux Falls College team
12-6.
In the opening game against the
Pipers at Hamline stadium, the
Royals combined a running and ari-al
attack by utilizing junior quar-terback
Bob Nolin, halfbacks Bar-nett
Cox and Don Land, and Dave
Moss at fullback. Nolin's principal
receivers were Orlon Lundberg and
John Carmean.
The Hamline eleven drew first
blood as they marched down to
the Royal four yard line. Quar-terback
Don Klohn set up the
tally as the Pipers scored, and
were successful in the two-point
conversion attempt. Thus in the
second period, the Royals trail-ed
8-0.
Slamming off tackle, Moss picked
up valuable yardage in sustaining
the second and third period driv-ers,
but the Royals were continu-ally
stopped short of paydirt. The
Royals yielded the ball with 10:06
showing on the scoreboard clock,
held the Pipers for three downs,
and forced the opponents to kick
from their own 33 yard line. Cox
picked off the punt and raced
sixty yards for the lone Bethel
tally.
In the Sioux Falls encounter, the
offense began rolling as Nolin took
to the air, completing 10 out of
13 passes. The defensive line plac-ed
pressure on the young Sioux
Falls quarterback, culminating fin-ally
in a pass interception by Lund-berg.
Both Royal tallies were scored
on passes from Nolin to Lund-berg.
The first, coming after a
long march by the Royals put
the St. Paul team ahead 6-0 as
the attempted extra point by
Larry Peterson was kicked wide.
The second touchdown was a
four yard pass.
Utilizing a young team, and a
small offensive line, the Royals will
face Lakeland College this week-end
at Midway stadium in the open-ing
home game. The Royals whal-loped
Lakeland last year 33-12, but
Coach Cox is not expecting an easy
game. The new head coach has
practiced long sessions every day
with the team, hoping to add more
playing experience to young men.
Saturday's game will be at 1:30
p.m.
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The traditional knock-down, drag-out
intramural season began Sat-urday,
September 25, with eight of
the nine teams participating in
touch football. Eight games are
planned for the season which pro-mises
to be a real thriller.
The nine teams—Barons, Cunts,
Dukes, Jesters, Knights, Pages,
Peasants, Squires, and Seminary
are busy practicing and recruit-ing
new players. Intramural Sup-ervisor
Tom Johnson (P. 0. 871)
says that anyone who is interested
in playing intramurals, but hasn't
been contacted should leave a note
in his P.O. today.
For those who don't participate
in football, there will be tennis
tournaments, a bowling roll-off,
a swimming tournament, ping-po
ng championships, handball
play-offs, and for the "intellec-tuals",
there will even be a chess
tournament. Keep your eyes on
the intramural bulletin board in
the fieldhouse to be informed on
the upcoming events.
Showing tremendous strength in
the first games were the Jesters,
and the Peasants. T h e Jesters
blanked the Pages 21 to 0 under
the leadership of quarterback Jim
Austin. The Peasants wiped the
Knights 13 to 0 behind the tre-mendous
passing of Dan Gross.
Next week pits the Jesters a-gainst
the Dukes; Peasants versus
the Seminary Knights facing the
Barons; and the Squires chase the
Pages with the Counts getting a
bye.
Valiant Royals Drop First Encounter;
Victorious with Nolin-Lundberg Duo
Bethel football returns to Midway Stadium this Saturday. For most
of the students this means blaring bands, stale popcorn, bubbly Cokes ;
new fall sweaters, screaming voices, and maybe, if the Bethel male
is bolder this year, dating companions.
But for 38 other students clad in full football armor, Bethel football
means little less than 60 minutes of concentrated, strenuous physical
exertion. Football from the player's perspective is much different than
from the fan's.
For instance how many fans know much about pre-season prepara-tion?
Every year two weeks before the season's opener, prospective
players gather in the fieldhouse, receive their equipment, and head for
one of the most unique experiences in their lives.
The Bethel Royals hold their pre-season practice at Wood Lake
Camp, a church camp near Grantsburg, Wisconsin. After unloading his
equipment and a small suitcase from the school bus, each player heads
for the cabin to which he has been assigned. This is home for a week
and a half. It comes furnished with slightly sagging bunk beds, paneled
walls, and a very workable oil heater (some nights are cold, even
in August).
Life is regimented for the next ten days except for a Sunday break.
Every cabin but one rises at 7:00. That one lucky cabin rises at 6:45 to
set the breakfast table. Each cabin rotates kitchen duty. After breakfast
the guys return to their cabins to read, listen to the radio, play rook,
clean up the cabin or sleep. Morning practice is at 9:30. It generally
lasts until 11:30.
Strenuous drills, scrimmages, and conditioning exercises fill these
two hours. After practice everyone stumbles down the hill which sep-arates
the camp from the practice field and hurries either to the
shower room or the lake (which this year felt about 50 degrees).
Lunch at 12:30 is followed by sack time until 3:00. One averages
9-10 hours of sleep per day, which is needed. At 3:00 the players
meet with the coach in the camp's chapel for a "chalk talk" which
generally means learning responsibilities for different playing positions.
The two hour afternoon practice starts at 4:30. Although the nights
can be cool, the days are often quite hot and practice is a sweaty
affair. After a couple of days a player's muscles are stiff from
exercise, his bones are sore from tackling and blocking, and the
practice field is ground to sand as 80 feet trample the same spots over
and over. But all this is part of the physical and psychological con-ditioning.
Supper is next and like all the meals is delicious.
A brief devotional service ends the day. Various well known
speakers (Dr. Dalton, Mr. Jessup, Pastor Glenn, Dean Muck) take
turns on different nights talking to the guys. This is not an easy
task, for some are starting to doze already. Lights are out by 10:00.
Football players leave camp physically and psychologically tired,
but strong. More important, they are developing a sense of unity through
working together in this isolated camp.
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